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- From "Bornholmske g?rde", edited by Aage Kure:
Jens Bendtsen was a "Amtsskriver" (Notary) and Steward (Ridefoged) for Hammershus fortress during the time of Hans Lindenov, who was the "Lensmand" (Feudal Lord) over Bornholm from 1594 until 1610. He was beheaded in 1609 by Hans Lindenov because he threatened with to tell the king about Lindenov's illegal tax collecting. Lindenov sentenced him to the gallows, but the peasants, who hated Lindenov gathered together at Hammershus in order to liberate the bailiff. Unfortunately, the entry to the fortress was locked, and bailiff Jens Bendtsen was beheaded upon the castle's square.
Dr. M.K. Zahrtmann wrote that the farm owned by Jens Bendtsen was originally called "Vesetegaard", and assumed this was it had belonged to Earl Vesete. It later came to be called "Peder Myhres Gaard", as Peder Hansen Myre lived there in 1547. Named "Lille Vestergaard" in 1598, as it never was assigned a farm number; it was, along with Vesterg?rd, 8 Vdg. Vestermarie, one of the 12 "kongens g?rde" (king's farms). It was referred to as "Fogedagerhuset" because "Ridefoged" (Steward) Jens Bendtsen had lived there. According to Dr. Zahrtmann, Jens Bendtsen was married to a woman named "Petronelle Mavridsdatter". The farm no longer exists; it was situated on a hill in the far northern part of Vestermarie parish, looking down upon ?rsballeg?rd, 41 Slg. Klemensker.
From the "Akstykker over Bornholm" with sources collected and transcribed by H?bertz in 1852:
Petronelle's name was problaby "Pernille" as she appears as such in "Aktstykker over Bornholm" - Petronelle is a latinization of that name. On April 1, 1609 "Jens Bentz?n Slotsskriver paa Hammershus" and his wife Pernelle Mauritzdatter were summoned to court and asked (well more likey told) to deliver a "rigtigt og klart regnskab" (true and clear account of expenses) over all their "goedz, Queg, F?e och Boeskaff baade wdj Westergaard, R?tne och wdj Landett, huorsomhelst det findis, och slet inthet deraff d?llies, men det rigtig lade opskriffue, saa och fra dennem antuorde rigtige och klare Regnskabsb?ger med huis hanndskriffter de haffde paa penninge, saa och en rigtig og klar Restantz, och derwdj forpligtedt dennom paa deris ?re, Godz och liffis Fortabel?e." It appears that there was some controversy between Hans Lindenov and Jens Bendtsen over the accounts, and the reason why Lindenov first put Jens Bendtsen out of office (as slotsskriver) and afterwards had him summoned to court to have him prosecuted. Jens Bendtsen promised on his life, honour and estate to deliver his and his wife's account books: "Derfor loffuer och tillforpligcter ieg mig ved mit liffs och ?ris och godzis fortabel?e, oc der fra mig leuere min hustrues och mine Regenskaffsb?ger paa alt hues wi haffuer handlet med nogen Mand her paa Landet."
Apparently it wasn't clear at first if it was him or his wife who cheated with the accounts, since they were both summoned and told to show their account books. It also says they owned: "Westergaard, M?llen hos Westergaard staaende", and a "Kj?bstadsgaard" (merchant's residence) in R?nne. It seems to be Pernille who had been cheating with the accounts and therefore technically stolen money from Lindenov and the crown because in the questioning of witnesses it appears that Pernille tried to make her friends hide her until she could escape to Sk?ne, she asked Andreas Berider's wife to let her hide in their house under a bed, but Andreas' wife didn't dare to help her.
A transcript of the witnesses explanation reads:
"Dereftter fremkom Andris Berider, och sin Sandhed bekjende, at Pernille war nogen f?ye tiid tiilforn kommen thill hans gaard i hans frawerel?e, och war begerendes aff hans hustru, att hun motte bliffue der en tid lang i skjul, och dersom hun icke haffde anden rom oc platz, begerede hun att were under sengen, huilcked Andrisis hustruue icke wilde eller torde tiilstede. Och der Andris kom, sagde hans hustrue sadant for hannom, och hand icke heller wilde det samtycke, at hand dermed icke skulle fort?rne sin ?ffrighed. Siden vidnede och bekiende Simon Bagger i R?nde med opracte finger och helgens eed, att forne Pernelle kom tiill hans hustru, och bad hende, hun skulle skiule hende, indtiill hun kunde komme offuer til Schaane, och dersom hun wilde forskaffe hende offuir, wilde hun giffue hundrede Daler dertil. Da sagde Simons hustrue till hende, huor wille i bekomme saa mange pendinge. Da sagde hun, att hun wilde sende bud tiil hendis Suoger i R?dskersogen, hand skulle selge aff hans godz for saa Pendinge, som it hundrede Daler kunde bel?be sig".
In the last section it states that Pernille went to Simon Bagger's wife in R?nne and asked her to help her to get to Sk?ne and she would pay her 100 daler, but Simon's wife asked her how she would get so much money. Then Pernille said she would contact her brother-in-law in Rutsker parish and he would get her as many goods as 100 daler was worth. She wasn't friends with Simon Baggers wife, because she called Pernille "I" instead of "Du" - which is the title used for someone of a higher class. Andris Berider's wife on the other hand seems to have been a friend.
Then there is the brother-in-law in Rutsker parish - could that be a brother of Jens Bendtsen named Hans Bendtsen? A Hans Bendtsen is mentioned in the visitation protocol of Magister Bishop Poul Mortensen Ostrup in 1616 wherein he appears as town bailiff in Hasle in 1616, and at that time Hasle was part of Rutsker parish: "Hans Bent??n Consul civitatis Haslensis conquestus est Dn. Laurentium de Rodne sumptibus Ecclesi? Haslensis sacris initiatum, ac statim illam ipsam deseruisse" (it was a complaint over the expenses for the new church: evidently a certain sum of money that had to be paid in due time but hadn't been paid). The "Dn. Laurentium in Rodne" is Lars Olufsen Borringholm, the clergyman for R?nne (source: "Aktstykker over Bornholm", H?bertz, 1852, p. 601).
Possibly Pernille had relatives in Sk?ne, it would of course be an obvious place to which to flee; however, there was a clerical-family in Lund who had names like Isak (Isaac) and Mourits. Isak Mouritsen (Isaacus Mauritius Gildeleianus) who would have been around the same age of Pernille, or about 10-15 years older, who became rector for Lund Latin School in 1576 (the cathedral school of Lund), he died there in 1585; he wrote some latin poetry and was a friend of the famous Niels Hemmingsen. Isak Mouritsen had a son named Mourits who became the clergyman for Horne parish on Fyn - and this Mourits named his first born daughter Pernille Mouritsdatter! Possibly Pernille is the sister of Isak Mouritsen, and thus she had family (a nephew or niece?) in Sk?ne with whom she sought to take refuge?
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1560 - 1609 (~ 49 år)
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